Don’t worry about the crappie, Tripoda. California just saved a billion smelt. Of course, it’s a war zone with billions of damage and lost human lives, but at least there are delicious smelt.
OT: OFF TOPIC Does Lake Mead fill up again?
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There are 16 rivers between San Francisco and the Oregon border that empty into the pacific. They account for 40% of the total runoff of California Mountains. They would need to be dammed to divert a portion of their water South. There are several problems with this. The terrain of these rivers would be difficult and expensive to dam but not impossible. Damming the rivers would make life difficult for Salmon and white water rafting. Environmentalists are in favor of dismantling dams/ not making new ones and the local residents of NorCal are generally against anything in their territory helping the rest of the state.
It's much easier to take water from Lake Mead.
The problemo is that fire season and rain season seem to somehow crash together in CA. Even though we got no rain in last year lol.
It's not always 'mismanagement' when shit happens out of the ordinary.
65 feet below my land under Pahrump, there’s water.
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No one has rejected a desalination plant because it would increase salt water in the sea wtf. There's issue with older plants and leftover brine that you can's just go dump it anywhere but the problem is more like current desalination plants just suck and are completely inefficient. The current plants are basically just big RO systems that we have under our sinks and they are slow and use a shit ton of electricity.
"No one has rejected a desalination plant because it would increase salt water in the sea wtf."
In 2022 the Poseidon Plant was rejected because of fears due to salinization. Read the 6th and 7th paragraphs of the article below.
Agency Unanimously Rejects California Desalination Project
The California Coastal Commission has rejected a long-standing proposal to build a $1.4 billion seawater desalination plant to turn ocean water into drinking water.
www.nbcsandiego.com
“Poseidon’s long-running proposal was supported by Gov. Gavin Newsom but faced ardent opposition from environmentalists who said drawing in large amounts of ocean water and releasing salty discharge back into the ocean would kill billions of tiny marine organisms that make up the base of the food chain along a large swath of the coast.” which is true and I already said above… you can’t just dump brine anywhere, it’s going to **** things up where it’s dumped.
but that’s not the reason the plant wasn’t approved:
Critics said the water would be too expensive and wasn’t urgently needed in the area where it would be built, which is less dependent on state and federal water due to an ample aquifer and water recycling program.
Commissioners cited those issues in following a staff recommendation and rejecting the proposal. They also cited the energy cost of running the plant and the fact that it would sit in an earthquake fault zone.
but that’s not the reason the plant wasn’t approved:
Critics said the water would be too expensive and wasn’t urgently needed in the area where it would be built, which is less dependent on state and federal water due to an ample aquifer and water recycling program.
Commissioners cited those issues in following a staff recommendation and rejecting the proposal. They also cited the energy cost of running the plant and the fact that it would sit in an earthquake fault zone.
There’s plenty of places where desalination makes sense and actually works. I wish I could find the YouTube video on Singapore’s (?) water system and how they supply millions of gallons to the city where there is 0 fresh water sources available and part of the system is desalination.
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